Faces to change the world

published by Asianpost on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 17:00

The list also names Papa, who set up India’s first department of women’s studies at Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu, in 1988. She is currently associated with the Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women (AUW), which will be launched in September.


Should this list be taken seriously?


The New Statesman reminds the reader that the last time it compiled such a list, in 2005, it had picked Barack Obama.

 

 

The other eight faces to watch for:



  • Chuka Umunna, 30-year-old British lawyer and prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham


  • Xian Zhang, 35-year-old Chinese music conductor


  • Joshua Foer, 25-year-old writer and U.S. ‘memory champion’


  • Athene Donald, professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University


  • Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, mayor of Tehran, academic and former police chief


  • Laura Robson, British tennis player


  • Mosiuoa Lekota, president of the Congress of the People, South Africa’s new opposition party


  • James Thornton, chief executive of American charity ClientEarth that takes up legal battles to protect the environment
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